Support for feed-bags.



PATENTED DEC. 12, 1905.

J. N. PRUSER. SUPPORT FOR FEED BAGS.

APPLICATION FILED SEP'ILZI, 1904.

IN VEIV TOR nJK Fraser ATTORNEYS.

, UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIcE.

SUPPORT FOR FEED-BAGS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1905.

Application filed September 21, 1904. Serial No. 225,304.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JOHN N. PRUSER, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Union Hill, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports for Feed-Bags, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to means for supporting feed-bags for horses when hitched to a vehicle provided with a pole; and the object thereof is to provide an improved device for this purpose which maybe connected with the pole of a vehicle of any kind or class and from which the horses when hitched to such vehicle may be conveniently fed without the necessity of having the bags connected with or suspended from their heads.

It is a well-known fact that there are many objections to feeding horses by means of feedbags suspended from their heads and into which their noses are inserted during the entire operation of feeding, this method of feeding I preventing as it does the proper breathing of the horses and also resulting in the drawing into the nostrils and lungs of all dust and dirt contained in the feed, the horses being unable to raise their heads'out of the bags while feedmg. I

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a transverse section of a wagon or other vehicle pole provided with my improvement, part of the construction being shown in section; Fig. 2, a plan view thereof; Fig. 3, a view similar to Fig. 1, showing my improvement detached from the pole of the vehicle and folded up; Fig. 4, a view similar to Fig. 1, showing a part only of the device and showing the modification; and Fig. 5, a plan view of the modification shown in Fig. 4:.

In the drawings, forming part of this specification, I have shown at a the pole of a vehicle, such as a heavy express-wagon or other vehicle of this class, and in the practice of my invention I mount thereon and secure thereto at a predetermined distance from the end thereof a socket member 6, which consists of a block having a base t bolted, screwed, or otherwise secured to the pole at and provided with a socket 6 into which is inserted an upright member 0, the lower end of which is angular in cross-section and the upper end of which is provided with side ears 0 at the top thereof which are extended laterally at one side, as shown at 0 and provided with angular slots or openings o which range vertically with the upright member 0 and transversely thereof. I also provide a transverse baror other support d, which is provided centrally with lugs or projections (Z which are angular in cross-section and which pass through the slots or openings 0* in the ears 0 of the upright member 0 and are movable in said slots or openings.

Vith each end of the bar or support (Z is connected a feedbag 6, comprising, in the form of construction shown, an annular or circular top member 0 a flexible bag member 6 secured thereto, and a bottom o secured therein. The bags 6 may, however, be made in any desired manner, and the top portion 0 to which the flexible bag member is secured, may be angular instead of annular or circular in form, and the flexible depending portion 6 which constitutes the bag member, may be made of any desired material, and the bottom at 6 may be secured therein in any desired manner, and the flexible body portion 6 may also be connected with the top member 6 in any preferred way.

The socket member 6 is preferably provided at its opposite sides with loops or ears f, through which are passed straps f which may be connected with the tops of the bags 6 or with the ends of the bar or support d in any desired manner, one end of each of which, in the form of construction shown, is passed through the top portion of the corresponding bag and provided with a buckle f and the other end of which is connected with a buckle f secured to that part of said straps with which the buckles f are connected. In the position of the straps f shown in Fig. 1 they serve as braces and aid in holding the bags 6 in proper position; but when the attachment is detached from the pole at the parts thereof may be folded together, as shown in Fig. 3, the flexible parts of the bags 6 may be compressed within the top members 6 and the straps f buckled around the same, as is also shown in Fig. 3, and the device may be placed in any convenient position under the seat of the Vehicle or suspended beneath the vehicle or carried in any desired manner, and the bottom of the bags 6 are preferably provided with keepers 6 through which said IIO straps are passed when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 8.

In Fig. 4 I have shown a modification designedfor use when my improvement is applied as an attachment for the poles of light carriages, and in this form of construction the socket member 6 is provided with side jaws g, which are hinged thereto at g and provided with a connecting-link member g", and when this form of attachment is employed the socket member 6, with the remaining parts of the attachment, may be all removed from the carriage-pole whenever desired and replaced thereon whenever necessary.

It will be understood that the socket member 6 (shown in Figs. 1 and 2) is permanently secured to the pole at; but the remaining parts of the device, including the upright member 0, the transverse bar d, the straps f and the bags 6, may be detached from the socket member Z) whenever desired and replaced in positionwhenever necessary for use. The lower end of the upright member is angular in form in cross-section, and the socket member b is similarly formed, and the deviceor attachment is thus prevented from turning on the pole. a, and it will be understood that c the position of the attachment on the pole a is such at all times when in position to enable the horses to be fed to eat freely and conveniently out of the bags 0, and in this operation the horses are free to lift their heads out of the bags whenever necessary or desirable, and the objections and inconveniences accompanying the feeding of horses by means of nose-bags or feed-bags suspended from their heads are obviated.

My invention is not limited to the exact details of construction herein shown and described, and I reserve the right to make all such alterations therein as fairly come'within the scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 4 i 1. A feed-bag attachment for the poles of vehicles, comprising a socket member adapted to be connected with the pole of the vehicle, an upright and non-rotatable member inserted into said socket member, a rigid transverse support loosely mounted in the top of the upright member transversely thereof and adapted to be folded longitudinally thereof and feed-bags connected with the opposite ends of said support, substantially as shown and described.

. Z. A feed-bag attachment for the poles of vehicles, comprising a socket member adapted to be connected with the pole of the vehicle, an upright and non-rotatable member inserted into said socket member, a transverse support mounted in the top of the upright member transversely thereof and adapted to be folded longitudinally thereof, feed-bags connected with the opposite ends of said support, and straps connecting the opposite ends of the support with the socket member, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in pres ence of the subscribing witnesses, this 20th day of September, 1904:.

JOHN N. PRUSER.

WVitnesses: v

F. A. STEWART, G. J. KLEIN. 

